VICTORIA LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 6

VICTORIA LEAGUE

FIRST DOMINION CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Ghrißtchurch, March 14. Tho first Dominion Conference of the Victoria League was opened this morning It was presided over by Mr. AY. J. Napier, of Auckland. Tho Mayor of Christchurch extended a welcome to the delegates. Mr. Napier, in acknowledging the welcome, outlined what the Victoria League stood for, and concluded as follows:—"This conference will, with God's help, result in teaching us how better to carry on, for carry on we must andiwill, until freedom for all the weak as well as the strong is secure. There are no timid counsels in the Victoria League. We; neither give ear to aristocratic backsliders of the Lansdowne type nor to the illinformed pacifist of the street corner. Steadily, persistently, unfalteringly, until our ends are achieved and tho Empire is made safe, we shall one and all unitedly and with the whole of our strength carry on." The Governor-General ana the Countess of Liverpool were elected patrons of all branches of the league in New Zealand. , , ... The president remarked tnat he did not know exactly what the monetary value of the league's war work was, hut he would say that in money and material it should not be fnr short of £150,000. Mrs. Chilton, Cliristchurch, proposed that an aeroplane, to be called -the New Zealand Victoria League aeroplane, be presented to the Imperial Forces. The president said tho proposal was , more sensible than the recent idea of sending a tank. The motion was referred to a sub-committee for a report. A motion was passed to the effect that the recent great rise in the cost of living required on Imperial grounds the attention of the women of the Dominion.